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Keeping Them Flying. President Johnson stated categorically last week that the U-2 flights would continue. "It is essential that we maintain surveillance and know whether any missiles are being shipped into Cuba," he said. Any interference, he added, would be "a very serious action." In the 1962 crisis, one...
In a Frank Yerby romance, such a situation would be accompanied by offstage thunder and lightning. In Novelist Grau's story it makes quiet sense. So does the plot development-melodramatic only in synopsis. Abigail's husband goes into segregationist politics. Grandfather's open secret does not...
The stylites, as they were called, perched on platforms as high as 80 feet; lived on olives; occasionally were struck by lightning. Stylites like St. Simeon found "refuge in a tree as Noah found it in an ark, so as to avoid contact with a condemned world in its last...
Before the clock was stopped, stomped on and smashed, Georgia's Fifth District, a three-county area embracing Atlanta, was the second most populous in the nation. The Ninth, on the other extreme, comprised 272,154 people. State legislators from the rural districts naturally preferred to keep things that...
Of all the nations carved from French Africa, none is less populous or more richly endowed with natural resources than tiny Gabon. With a population of only 450,000, it is one of the biggest producers of uranium and manganese in the franc zone, and its magnetic deposits of iron...